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Amit Baruah
GENEVA: The issue of "movement of natural persons", in which countries such as India have major stakes, can be a "deal-breaker" in the ongoing Doha round of trade talks, Ujal Singh Bhatia, India's Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), saidrecently. The movement of natural persons must not be confused with immigration issues. This proposal involved the movement of skilled professionals for a short-term period, he told visiting Indian presspersons. After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the issue got mixed up with immigration questions. India was looking to define issues such as who was a professional and qualifications, which met this definition. It was looking to enter into bilateral commitments and would not leave the issue of movement of professionals to the discretion of individual-countries. India wanted to ensure that identified countries accepted an agreed number of persons every year.
G-20 experts' meet
Mr. Bhatia said the G-20 group was formed with for tackling the alliance between the United States and the European Union in trade negotiations and was focussed on agriculture. G-20 technical experts were meeting five days a week to discuss issues and coming out with concrete proposals. Referring to the stated objective of concluding the Doha round by next year, Mr. Bhatia said agriculture remained the centrepiece of the negotiations. Far too long, subsidies had distorted trade in agriculture in many parts of the developed world. While two-thirds of Indians were farmers, they contributed less than one-fourth of the country's gross domestic product.
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